In a hopeful sign that the 20 day long Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip may finally be winding down, Israel's Ynet is quoting Palestinian sources as saying both Israel and Hamas have agreed on the general outline for the Egyptian ceasefire and will soon...
Hamas has reportedly told the Egyptian government that it will agree to a year-long, renewable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if Israel withdraws its forces from the strip in the next week and reopens the border crossings which have long remained closed. The offer falls...
The headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip was attacked today by Israeli artillery, sparking a fire which continues to burn. The compound was reportedly housing 700 civilian refugees and storehouses of increasingly scarce...
The International Criminal Court declared today that it has no jurisdiction over the actions of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, meaning that the growing number of calls by humanitarian organizations to investigate Israeli activities in the Gaza Strip cannot lead to...
The struggling Egyptian ceasefire effort for the Gaza Strip seems to have finally made some meaningful progress after a week of backdoor wrangling, as Hamas has accepted the deal "in principle," though they said they had reservations about some of the terms and were...
19 days in, the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip passed another major milestone, with over 1,000 Palestinians killed in the attack. The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which has been tracking the toll, said 673 of those killed were civilians, with 225...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Monday comments, in which he claimed to have ordered President Bush to prevent an American vote in favor of the UN Security Council's Gaza ceasefire resolution and publicly shamed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the process...
Top Israeli defense officials say that the military has accomplished all that it possibly could in nearly three weeks of attacks on the Gaza Strip, and they support the idea of ending the operations before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama next week....
Attempting to capitalize on the international outrage, particularly in the Muslim world, over the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Osama bin Laden's newest audio tape calls for all Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel. His speech also targeted the leaders of most of...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak is reportedly in favor of a week-long "humanitarian ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip to curb the growing international criticism about the war's toll on civilians. Even Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who spoke with pride at how the military had...
